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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2409-1634</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Research result. Economic Research</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2409-1634</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18413/2409-1634-2014-1-2-51-77</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">280</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>WOLD ECONOMY</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>THE ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA COUNTRIES BY MEANS OF GCI-METHODOLOGY</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>THE ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA COUNTRIES BY MEANS OF GCI-METHODOLOGY</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Moskovkin</surname><given-names>Vladimir M.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Moskovkin</surname><given-names>Vladimir M.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>moskovkin@bsu.edu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Siz’engo</surname><given-names>Munenge</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Siz’engo</surname><given-names>Munenge</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>moskovkin@bsu.edu.ru</email></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><institution>Belgorod State National Research University</institution></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>1</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>0</fpage><lpage>0</lpage><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="/media/economic/2014/2/selection_4.pdf" /><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The GCI-methodology, which was developed earlier through introduction of a five-level classification scale for twelve aggregated indicators of global competitiveness of the countries, is used for constructing the frequency tables of the number of cases of different global competitiveness levels, the matrices of global competitiveness levels of the countries on twelve aggregated GCI indicators and the matrices of the strengths and weaknesses of the global competitiveness for three groups of the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is shown that Mauritius, Rwanda and the Seychelles Islands have the best positions in the global competitiveness. All these countries are close to reach the lower bound of the high global competitiveness level. The authors suggest two variants for calculating the aggregated indicator of global competitiveness of the arbitrary group of the countries that have led to the close results of the calculations for the three groups of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The calculations showed that the above mentioned aggregated indicators for COMESA countries exceeded those for countries of ECOWAS and ECCAS, and for the last two countries these indicators were almost the same.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The GCI-methodology, which was developed earlier through introduction of a five-level classification scale for twelve aggregated indicators of global competitiveness of the countries, is used for constructing the frequency tables of the number of cases of different global competitiveness levels, the matrices of global competitiveness levels of the countries on twelve aggregated GCI indicators and the matrices of the strengths and weaknesses of the global competitiveness for three groups of the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is shown that Mauritius, Rwanda and the Seychelles Islands have the best positions in the global competitiveness. All these countries are close to reach the lower bound of the high global competitiveness level. The authors suggest two variants for calculating the aggregated indicator of global competitiveness of the arbitrary group of the countries that have led to the close results of the calculations for the three groups of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The calculations showed that the above mentioned aggregated indicators for COMESA countries exceeded those for countries of ECOWAS and ECCAS, and for the last two countries these indicators were almost the same.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>GCI methodology</kwd><kwd>twelve aggregated indicators</kwd><kwd>five-level classification scale</kwd><kwd>COMESA</kwd><kwd>ECOWAS</kwd><kwd>ECCAS</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>GCI methodology</kwd><kwd>twelve aggregated indicators</kwd><kwd>five-level classification scale</kwd><kwd>COMESA</kwd><kwd>ECOWAS</kwd><kwd>ECCAS</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>Список литературы</title><ref id="B1"><mixed-citation>Moskovkin V.M. Methodological Foundations of Global Competitiveness on the Example of MENA Countries and Ukraine [Text]. М.: Kharkiv, 2006. № 6. Pp. 10-19.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><mixed-citation>Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz,. 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